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Janet
Ohene-Frempong, M.S.
Janet Ohene-Frempong, President of J. O. Frempong & Associates,
specializes in plain language and cross-cultural consumer
communications. Formerly Director of the Health Literacy
Project at the Health Promotion Council of Southeastern
Pennsylvania, she has over 25 years of experience in
patient/provider communications.
Janet has assisted clients
with the many aspects of plain language materials design,
from concept development to
final field testing. She has conducted workshops on
plain language and cross-cultural communications for
a wide
range of health information providers, including: health
care
systems, government agencies, health insurers, pharmaceutical
companies, medical publishers, health and human service
agencies and schools of medicine, nursing and allied
health. She is often an invited speaker at national
conferences.
Janet is co-author of Literacy, Health and
the Law: An Exploration of the Law and the Plight
of Marginal
Readers
within the Health Care System, a monograph
for health system and pharmaceutical industry administrators.
She is also
co-author of "Health Care for African Americans"
in Rethinking Ethnicity and Health Care, a
discussion of the role
of marginal literacy as one barrier to optimal
care.
Janet has served on several national advisory committees
and is currently a founding member of the Partnership
for Clear Health Communication.
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